Join us for our next club meeting as we explore Ray Bradbury’s haunting short story “There Will Come Soft Rains.”
Published in the 1950s, this piece imagines an automated house continuing its daily routine even after the disappearance of its human inhabitants. It is a chilling reflection on technology, war, and the fragility of humanity’s future. Whether you are reading it for the first time or revisiting it, this short story offers plenty to think about and discuss.

Over the past two decades, the bedroom has been culturally reconfigured and revitalized. As neoliberal-policy induced housing precarity has become ubiquitous, we now spend much more time living with roommates, or maybe even moving back into our parents’ place. We feel as though our agency and control are in constant flux, slowly slipping away from us while the complexities of the global financial flows and politics which govern our lives consistently seem to undermine our interests. What, then, is left over? Where can we still exercise our agency? What place still belongs to us?

Robert Poorten/AdobestockWhere will all the electricity required for the increasing number of electric cars come from? The Shared Charging project aims to provide an answer to this common question. The research team is developing a novel approach to public charging systems that can be seamlessly integrated into renewable energy systems. The goal is to create a comprehensive, user-friendly network of charging points that is as accessible as today’s parking spaces – but powered by solar, wind and other renewable sources.

ODE helped PARI restructure messy public financial datasets into a clean, consistent format, making them more presentable and ready for reliable analysis
The post Open Data Editor in Action: Enhancing Fiscal Governance and Transparency in South African Municipalities first appeared on Open Knowledge Blog.

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Most people don’t know that Wikipedia is hosted by a nonprofit. Accurate information online is needed now more than ever, as is the work of the Wikimedia Foundation.

How many times did you look up something on your phone today? Did you ask ChatGPT a question? How about Alexa or Siri or a social media site? 

Ein echter Meilenstein auf dem Weg zu autonomen Raumfahrtsystemen: Ein Forschungsteam der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) hat einen KI-basierten Lageregler für Satelliten direkt im All erfolgreich getestet – eine Weltpremiere! Der Test fand an Bord des 3U-Nanosatelliten InnoCube statt. 

aau/MüllerHow can systems solve complex problems such as creating a duty roster in a hospital or a time and room schedule at a university – while remaining clear and easy to follow? In the project ‘EX3: EXplain and EXploit Knowledge EXtracted to Improve ASP’, funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, Alice Tarzariol will be working on new methods for solving these kinds of issues more efficiently and accurately with the help of Artificial Intelligence.

Cette année, la revue Lex Electronica du Centre de recherche en droit public (CRDP) fête ses 30 ans. Fondée en 1995 par Karim Benyekhlef, elle est la première revue juridique en libre-accès de la francophonie. Ses 30 volumes et ses 74 numéros témoignent de sa persévérance et de son succès.

Have you taken care of all your appointments?
Many parents took vacation during the fall break week. This was not only noticeable among the staff, but also in the courses, where seats remained empty. Many of them were probably engaged in caregiving activities during this time.

In der aktuellen Ausgabe des Journal of Applied Ecology berichten Forschende der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU), dass Rehe die natürliche Regeneration von Laubwäldern deutlich stärker einschränken als bislang angenommen. Das Team um Professor Jörg Müller hat in einem mehrjährigen Freilandexperiment gezeigt: Selbst wenn nach Störungen viel Licht in den Wald fällt, kann dieser Vorteil den selektiven Verbiss durch Rehe nicht kompensieren. 
Verbiss verhindert positive Lichteffekte 

Am Buß- und Bettag, den 19. November 2025, verwandelt sich die Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie der Julius‑Maximilians‑Universität Würzburg (JMU) in ein Quantenlabor: Unter dem Titel „Junior Conference on Quantum Physics“ erwartet Schülerinnen und Schüler der siebten bis neunten Klassen ein abwechslungsreiches Programm aus Workshops, spannenden Vorträgen und Experimenten.

Talk im Turm: Göttliche Algorithmen und Putins Desinformation

El Programa de Derecho, Ciencia y Tecnología UC realizó el lanzamiento oficial de la red de expertos del proyecto Following the Korean Experience, una iniciativa desarrollada con el apoyo de The Korea Foundation, enfocada en promover el diálogo sobre los avances y desafíos de la regulac

The process of standardising data with ODE is a direct contribution to AAOO's goal of creating AI models that are built on respectful, accurately represented, and ethically sourced data from the Global South.
The post Open Data Editor in Action: Building Culturally-Accurate, and Global South Sensitive AI Datasets first appeared on Open Knowledge Blog.

In der BR24-#Faktenfuchs-Recherche vom 24. Oktober 2025 wird untersucht, was hinter den derzeit massenhaft auf TikTok grassierenden Videos mit Falschinformationen über angebliche Maßnahmen der deutschen Bundesregierung steckt. Fay Carathanassis, wissenschaftliche Referentin in der Abteilung Forschung am bidt und wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl „Recht und Sicherheit der Digitalisierung“ an der Technischen Universität München, ordnet die Verbreitung solcher Videos rechtlich ein.